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spot is similarly connected with the fifth spot, also on the left wing 

 only. On both wings the fifth spot is extended towards the anal angle 

 considerably further than usual. Altogether it is a very pretty and 

 peculiar specimen.— John E. Robson, Hartlepool. 



Triph^na subequa.— During the last week of July I caught no 

 less than fifteen specimens of Tviphcena subsequa ; they varied in colour 

 from chestnut brown to olive grey. — D. H. Stuart, Kilmorack Manse, 

 Inverness. 



Pachycnemia hippocastanaria. — I took several of these moths in 

 August this year ; they were in good condition and apparently fresh 

 from the pupa. Would not they be a second brood, for I have seen 

 none since the early part of June and those were much worn ? — 

 Herbert Ashby, Southampton. 



Tortrix piceana Re-captured. — I have pleasure in recording the 

 capture of Tortrix piceana, by Mr. Charles Gulliver, Ramnor Cottage, 

 Brockenhurst. This is the more gratifying as acting on the advice of 

 the best entomologists in the country, he had devoted a great deal of 

 time in searching for the larvae, but without success. Those who 

 wish specimens of this rarity will do well to send to him at once, as 

 he has only a few specimens. — S. J. Capper, Huyton Park, Liverpool. 



Captures in the Isle of Wight.— I had a little sport with Spilo- 

 dactylus the other day, and have taken a good many Bennetii. No 

 noctuas, they wont come ; the sugar is wasted. Small things are 

 abundant, but I have scarcely met with anything out of the way. I 

 got a nice lot of C. parvulana. — J. W. Tutt, Roseberry House, 

 Freshwater Bay, Isle of Wight. 



Nebria Gyllenhalii. — Having taken this beetle for some years 

 at an altitude of over 1,000 feet, I was considerably surprised 

 the other day to find it beneath the bark of a rotten willow stump, 

 not 300 feet altitude. It not this unusual ? I generally capture them 

 by pulling up likely tufts of Eriophorium vaginatum (cotton grass), and 

 shaking them well over a newspaper, and have also found them by 

 turning over pebbles in the bed of a dried up mountain stream. — 

 C. E. Stott, Lostock, Bolton. 



Nebria Gyllenhalii occurs in Crimdon Dene, three miles from here, 

 very little above the level of the sea. I find it under stones at the 

 edge of the little stream that runs down the Dene, or in hot weather 

 when the stream is dry, under stones in the bed. — John E. Robson, 

 Hartlepool. 



